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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quaint birds, animals and reptiles moved about them-atop Mt. Roraima, and on the plateau below. Mr. Carter killed a jaguar as it was feeding on its kill, a colt. The elder Mr. Tate killed a poisonous bushmaster snake five feet long just after he had stepped across it in the dark. One of their 130 Arecuna Indian porters hacked with his machete at a 14-ft. anaconda until it was dead and ready for eating. (Anaconda flesh tastes something like chicken.) They snared birds, netted insects, disinterred ground plants, culled orchids from their treeholds, pounced on small beasts. Rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mt. Roraima | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Married. Miss Rosemary Ames, daughter of Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames (Booth Fisheries, American Steel Foundries, Chicago Journal of Commerce, etc., etc.), of Chicago; to Ogden Ketting, subaltern of Public Utility Magnate Samuel Insull, in Chicago. Samuel Insull Jr. functioned as best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Item: One secret cabinet in the fireplace guarded by a snake, poisonous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder. Hearing of the barber's suicide, Painter Ryder was shocked. He painted a picture of a skeleton jockey perched upon a great white race horse. The great white horse was galloping around a race track. In the corner of the picture was a snake, to symbolize temptation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ryder's Race Track | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...Third Engineers are proud of their comrade." So reads a bronze tablet to be affixed to Gold Hill, which looms beside the longest dry cut in the Panama Canal. This cut, nine miles in length, was called Culebra (meaning "snake") until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Gold Hill | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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